If steel forging dies experience thermal cycling, which failure process dominates?

💡 Explanation

Frequent heating/cooling creates thermal stresses. The primary failure is thermal fatigue. Micro-cracks initiate and the material cracks because alternating thermal stress exceeds the material's endurance limit, therefore, fatigue crack propagation dominates the failure, rather than creep or graphitization.

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